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AUTOLYCUS

Ay, and it like your good worship.

CLOWN
Give me thy hand: I will swear to the prince thou [150] art as honest a true
fellow as any is in Bohemia.

SHEPHERD
You may say it, but not swear it.

CLOWN
Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I’ll swear

it.

SHEPHERD
How if it be false, son? [155]

CLOWN
If it be ne’er so false, a true gentleman may swear it in the behalf of his
friend: and I’ll swear to the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands and that
thou wilt not be drunk; but I know thou art no tall fellow of thy hands and

that thou will be drunk: but I’ll swear it, and I would thou [160] would’st be a
tall fellow of thy hands.

AUTOLYCUS
I will prove so, sir, to my power.

CLOWN
Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow: if I do not wonder how thou dar’st
venture to be drunk, not being a tall fellow, trust me not. Hark! the kings and

the princes, [165] our kindred, are going to see the queen’s picture. Come,
follow us: we’ll be thy good masters.
Exeunt.

Scene III IT